State-Backed Banks Invest in Banned Cluster Bombs

by | Aug 15, 2011

British high-street banks, including two institutions that were bailed out by taxpayers, are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that manufacture cluster bombs – despite a growing global ban outlawing the production and trade of the inherently indiscriminate weapons. The military industrial complex is being enabled, instead of restricted, by their big government cohorts.

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John Glaser writes for Antiwar.com.

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